John Carradine

Nicholas Ray’s The True Story of Jesse James (1957) is a film about progressive myth-making, the fabrications and recollections that produce a multifaceted yet never fully realized celebrity figure. Here, the legacy of its notorious […]

1972’s Boxcar Bertha is an American International film, produced by Roger Corman, directed by Martin Scorsese–his second feature in fact. There’s a lot going on there in that collection of words. Corman, Scorsese, AIP. Based […]

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